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by wanderr 17y ago
I have my tweets replicated to Facebook, but that's because I never use Facebook directly, and most of my friends aren't on the twitter bandwagon. The 3 friends who follow me on both are free to stop following me on either, they won't miss
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by wanderr 17y ago
I also wonder about effects on cadence caused by interruprions or general distractions, let alone what happens to my typing if I try to type while eating. Is it really reasonable to expect a users undivided attention just so they can log in
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by wanderr 17y ago
While the reference is amusing, isn't that how many/most vaccines work already?
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by wanderr 17y ago
The big brands have done a good job producing the illusion of choice. How does your average consumer know that all of these different brands are actually the same company?
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by wanderr 17y ago
It's possible my perspective is skewed. I write APIs for stateful applications, so clients don't ask for the same information over and over, reducing the need/utility of browser caching. I can see how REST would help solve the caching probl
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by wanderr 17y ago
Simplicity is good, but so is flexibility and compatibility. As I mentioned, parts of REST aren't good enough; anything that doesn't have access to http status codes won't be fully compatible. A decent RPC protocol like JSON-RPC is both fle
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by wanderr 17y ago
REST has always felt a little bit dirty to me; an improper commingling of what should be two different layers. To me, using aspects of the HTTP protocol to have meaning for a higher level service is a bit like using aspects of the TCP proto
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by wanderr 17y ago
Uh huh. And if you say you love pizza, does your significant other get jealous?
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by wanderr 17y ago
When I have to work with them for any length of time, I certainly do hate some screwdrivers more than others.
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by wanderr 17y ago
For me I normally don't care at all how big, bulky or heavy a laptop is until I am traveling/vacationing. I like to travel light, so it's nice if my laptop is so light and small that rather than needing a whole bag of its own, it can slip c
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by wanderr 17y ago
Being sued != being illegal. Not having a licensing contract != not paying anything for streams. Note: regular HN reader and Grooveshark employee who happened to stumble across this thread while reading HN; I'm not representing Grooveshark
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by wanderr 17y ago
Did you read the article? It's about iPhone/iPod download attempts.
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by wanderr 17y ago
I'm still having a hard time understanding the distinction. What is meant by "like a virus" and how is that different from how our service is growing rapidly due to word of mouth? Are viral services spread "like a virus" because their use i
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by wanderr 17y ago
Assuming by viral we all mean achieving exponential growth without marketing, then this article is wrong. The company I work at has been seeing 20% growth per month for many months now, and we don't seem to be meeting his definitions: "A us
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by wanderr 17y ago
Well it's not that bad on android. You don't have root but everything you mentioned is "allowed." Although not having access to root annoys me in principle, I haven't needed root for anything, so I haven't bothere rooting the phone even t
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by wanderr 17y ago
The apps I usually see frequent updates are apps where there's a lot of bugfixing or innovation going on, nothing wrong with frequent updates there. I also think fake updates will tend to backfire on abusers, because users are presented wit
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by wanderr 17y ago
We actually got to put that in practice when we moved our servers to a new data center, although we used a uhaul. ~60tb in 1.5 hrs.
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by wanderr 17y ago
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by wanderr 17y ago
Although it's a cool hack, what's the advantage of doing this over using a GUID or a UUID? Fewer bits?
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by wanderr 17y ago
Windows 7 helps with this a bit, Win+Arrow key to snap a window to the left or right side of the screen evenly. Press the arrow key again if you have multiple monitors, and the window moves to the other monitor. This method is quite handy a
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by wanderr 17y ago
/You can't use science to look for God because science only works on everything in the universe. If there is a God worth the title, he she it is not going to be in there./ If we restrict ourselves to talking about a god that is not a part o
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by wanderr 17y ago
"I'm not the administrator on my own hardware (without jailbreaking)" I'm an android user and definitely think Android is the better and more open choice, but this point is just as true on Android as it is on an iPhone. Getting root may be
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by wanderr 17y ago
Android phones can play mp3s just fine. The built in mp3 player is "not fancy" but it gets the job done just fine. When you connect the phone to your computer via USB, it shows up as an external drive, so you can put songs onto it the same
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by wanderr 17y ago
Neither does pretty much any other plugin. In fact, 32-bit Quicktime in 32-bit Firefox on x86-64 WinXP or Win7 doesn't even work properly; the control bar is rendered as just a solid black bar.
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by wanderr 17y ago
I disagree. It was talk like this that convinced me to learn a couple of other languages when I was a kid before jumping in to C++, and I regret not going straight for it. C++ is not difficult to learn, but once you have it down you'll have
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by wanderr 17y ago
I don't know what you're talking about, and I'm not entirely sure that you do either. Adobe Flash on ARM processors runs the exact same swfs (with stricter memory limits, obviously) as Adobe Flash on the desktop. Adobe Flash 9 has also been
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by wanderr 17y ago
1. False: http://venturebeat.com/2008/11/16/chip-designer-arm-bringing... http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/mobile_demo...
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by wanderr 17y ago
"Flash cookies are pure deep evil and in use every single day." LSOs in Flash are not strictly cookies. It so happens that many advertisers like to use them that way, but the usefulness for tracking across multiple websites can be easily cu
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by wanderr 17y ago
"I literally CHOKE thinking" Literally? Really?
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by wanderr 17y ago
How is one supposed to report spam?

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